International

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 17, 2018 (6 items)

Child survivors of the Kindertransport to receive compensation 80 years later Julius Berman, President of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference), announced Monday that as a result of ongoing negotiations between the Claims Conference and the German government, an agreement was reached on the 80th anniversary of the Kindertransport, to provide […]

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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

The Middle East debate according to the Internet

By Bruce S. Ticker PHILADELPHIA — “Only one side ethnically cleanses…When does defending Israel cross the line into racism? The moment anybody defends Israel, of course.” So writes Steven Salaita, author of Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine. Salaita and other advocates for the Palestinians would convince me that peace between Israel and the Palestinians

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Middle East

P.M. Morrison’s Jerusalem reversal shames Australia

By Helen Applebaum SAN DIEGO — Australia has a history with the Jews.  At the failed 1938 Evian Conference, convened to rescue the Jews from Hitler, the Australian delegate said: “It will no doubt be appreciated also that as we have no real racial problems, we are not desirous of importing them.” That shameful statement of

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International, Jewish History, Middle East

Outside influences always have impacted Judaism

By Rabbi Dow Marmur JERUSALEM —  Sir Simon Schama, celebrated historian, best-selling author, and TV personality was in Jerusalem the other day to give a lecture called, “Jewish Arguments Then and Now.” Starting with the two creation stories in the Book of Genesis and moving on through literature and history to important thinkers like Maimonides,

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Jewish Religion, Middle East, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 14, 2018 (4items)

World Jewish Congress denounces Palestinian terror attacks in Israel The World Jewish Congress (WJC) strongly condemns the brutal terror attacks which took place in recent days in Israel. Two Israeli soldiers were killed on Thursday in Givat Asaf, and several others were wounded, just miles from the scene of Sunday’s shocking attack in Ofra, in

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International, Middle East, USA

Film Review: ‘Sacred’ from PBS

By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Sacred, now streaming at https://www.pbs.org/wnet/sacred/sacred-full-episode/, views life cycle events and religious practices through the lenses of more than 40 videographers stationed on five continents – Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, and South America.  We see not only the well known western and eastern religions, but also tribal and

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International, Jewish Religion, Middle East, Theatre, Film & Broadcast, Travel and Food, USA

Editor’s E-Mail Box: December 13, 2018 (3 items)

Ten UC chancellors condemn academic boycott efforts against Israel In reply to a letter from 101 organizations and calls from thousands of concerned citizens, the University of California (UC) became the first university to issue a statement of condemnation against any attempts by faculty to implement an academic boycott of Israel on campus. “As chancellors

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Book review: ‘Memories, Miracles & Meaning’

Memories, Miracles & Meaning: Insights of a Holocaust Survivor by Fanny Krasner Lebovits (with Selwyn Isakow and Sid Shapira); Mascot Books (c) 2019; ISBN 9781643-071909; 199 pages plus family tree, photos and glossary; $22.95. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – At 96, Fanny Krasner Lebovits is still going strong.  I saw her as recently

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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, International, Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, USA

Battling anti- Israel bias in high schools

By Charles Jacobs BOSTON — The well-known hostility to supporters of Israel on campus is rapidly expanding into American high school classrooms where anti-Israel and anti-Western “lessons” often morph toward the anti-Semitic. There are increasing reports of Jewish students being silenced, intimidated, or bullied in high schools, which are becoming gateways to campus Jew-hatred. In

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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA